Created by Nicole Williamson - 2022

Last updated: 2022-09-23

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Welcome!

Welcome to the Arctic Long Term Ecological Research (ARC LTER) team! The LTER Network was established in the 1980’s by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support long-term ecological research all over the United States. Our research site is located in the foothills of the Brooks Range, North Slope of Alaska. We are based out of the University of Alaska’s Toolik Field Station. Learn more about the ARC LTER’s goals and access our long-term datasets HERE.

This website was created to have everything you need to successfully collect and maintain our long-term data sets all in one place.

Helpful links to get you started

Life at Toolik - Nearly everything you need to know about life at Toolik can be found here

Map of Toolik Field Station - Includes an interactive aerial view of the station

Environmental Data Center (EDC) - The EDC maintains several different long-term data sets including both biotic (bird counts, plant phenology, and NDVI), and abiotic (weather, meteorological, snow depth, ice thickness, atmospheric, time-lapse imagery, and more). They also have plant and several animal guides.

Plant ID

• Toolik’s EDC plant guide
• Plant ID Quizlet
• Tricky plant ID help

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Plant abundance

• In the field - data collection
• Entering data
• Clean & calculate relative cover

Unispec

• Unispec short protocol
• Data Procedure

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